Presidents and the dissolution of the Union : leadership style from Polk to Lincoln / / Fred I. Greenstein with Dale Anderson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779567403321
• Autore: Greenstein Fred I
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton : , : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
• ISBN: 1-299-46481-5; 1-4008-4641-2; 9781400846412 q (ebook)
• Edizione: [Core Textbook]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): AndersonDale <1953->
• Disciplina: 973.09/9
• Soggetti: Presidents - United States - History - 19th century; Presidents - United States; Political leadership - United States; United States Politics and government 1783-1865
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Presidential Difference in the Civil War Era -- Chapter 2. The Policy- Driven Political Style of James K. Polk -- Chapter 3. The Rough and Ready Leadership of Zachary Taylor -- Chapter 4. Millard Fillmore and the Compromise of 1850 -- Chapter 5. Franklin Pierce and the Kansas- Nebraska Act -- Chapter 6. The Disastrous Presidency of James Buchanan -- Chapter 7. Abraham Lincoln: Consummate Leader -- Chapter 8. What Difference Did the President Make? -- Appendix. Background on the Civil War Era Presidents -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. In his other acclaimed books about the American presidency, Fred Greenstein assesses the personal strengths and weaknesses of presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama. Here, he evaluates the leadership styles of the Civil War-era presidents. Using his trademark no-nonsense approach, Greenstein looks at the presidential qualities of James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James ; Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln. For each president, he provides a concise history of the man's life and presidency, and evaluates him in the areas of public communication, organizational capacity, political skill, policy vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence. Greenstein sheds light on why Buchanan is justly ranked as perhaps the worst president in the nation's history, how Pierce helped set the stage for the collapse of the Union and the bloodiest war America had ever experienced, and why Lincoln is still considered the consummate American leader to this day. Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union reveals what enabled some of these presidents, like Lincoln and Polk, to meet the challenges of their times--and what caused others to fail.

Voices from the Soviet edge : southern migrants in Leningrad and Moscow / / Jeff Sahadeo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793416403321
• Autore: Sahadeo Jeff <1967->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, New York ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 1-5017-3821-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.809470904
• Soggetti: Migration, Internal - Soviet Union - History; Migration, Internal - Caucasus, South - History - 20th century; Migration, Internal - Asia, Central - History - 20th century; Saint Petersburg (Russia) Ethnic relations; Moscow (Russia) Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Journeys to the Core(s) -- 1. Global, Soviet Cities -- 2. Friendship, Freedom, Mobility, and the Elder Brother -- 3. Making a Place in the Two Capitals -- 4. Race and Racism ; -- 5. Becoming Svoi: Belonging in the Two Capitals -- 6. Life on the Margins -- 7. Perestroika -- Conclusion: Red or Black? -- Appendix: Oral Histories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Jeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and others who arrived toward the end of the Soviet era, seeking opportunity at the privileged heart of the USSR. Through the extensive oral histories Sahadeo has collected, he shows how the energy of these migrants, denigrated as "Blacks" by some Russians, transformed their families' lives and created inter-republican networks, altering society and community in both the center and the periphery of life in the "two capitals. "Voices from the Soviet Edge connects Leningrad and Moscow to transnational trends of core-periphery movement and marks them as global cities. In examining Soviet concepts such as "friendship of peoples" alongside ethnic and national differences, Sahadeo shows how those ideas became racialized but could also be deployed to advance migrant aspirations. He exposes the Brezhnev era as a time of dynamism and opportunity, and Leningrad and Moscow not as isolated outposts of privilege but at the heart of any number of systems that linked the disparate regions of the USSR into a whole. In the 1980's, as the Soviet Union crumbled, migration increased. These later migrants were the forbears of contemporary Muslims from former Soviet spaces who now confront significant discrimination in European Russia. As Sahadeo demonstrates, the two cities benefited from 1980's' migration but also became communities where racism and exclusion coexisted with citizenship and Soviet identity.